C Mount lens to EOS body?

I have an EOS canon, and I just got an old canon 16mm C mount tv lens.

Is there a C mount to EOS adapter?

if not is there a work around, that would be optimal, like
C mount to X adapter : X adapter to EOS ?

two adapters solution? what would the X adapter be?

thanks in advance

The c mount lens doesn't have a big enough image circle so there would be alot of vignetting even on 1.6x sensors . Read about c mount lenses on the pany g1 or gh1 . They don't even cover m4/3 sensors .

I dont mind the vignetting for now.

GH1 is an option when I can get my hands on it.

But I'd still like to know a solution on how to get it on the EOS

anyone?

you can get a ef to fd adapter for sure then go look for a c mount to fd - seems like alot of trouble - are you shooting video ?

It is not possible to use c-mount lenses on a Canon EOS without optical adapter and without looking the mirror and insert the lens into the camera for work on infinity.

C-mount has as flange back distance 17.526 mm - and Canon EOS 44,0 mm, so the lens has tor protrude 26 mm from the C-Mount flange + ~ 5 mm for the c-mount screw + probably some more millimeters - for infinity.

For makro work you could probably tinker a cheap adapter out of an camera cap. Depending on the lens and magnification one probably gets even full frame images.

A further possibility is to adapt the c-mount lens with a optical adapter. For this you take the virtual image of the lens an enlarge it onto the Canon sensor. Probably you need a added field lens for that.
Those optical adapters are not sold, as far as I know.
I build one for tests, with a macro lens and extension rings.

The other way round, from a lens with larger image diameters to a smaller camera sensor is also possible, currently I do a little testing with a Zenitar 16 mm on my crop camera - with the full image diamter.

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I made some experiments with both ways: A 24x36 mm lens on a crop DSLR and the other way round: A Angenieux lens from an old double eight film camera for a crop sensor. This page of my site is in german, but look at the pictures: The lens combination is very long, and the quality I got is not good:
http://4photos.de/camera-diy/objektiv-format-adaption.html

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http://www.srb-griturn.com/other-35mm-lenses-on-canon-eos-cameras-334-c.asp

This links to SRB in the Luton (?) area inthe UK.
They can usually make any lens attach to any body if it is possible

Also a slim possibility,if you look around the following link,they might be able to help (even though its primarily rangefinders)
http://www.cameraquest.com/
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Check out edmundsoptics.com Look for a eos t mount adapter. Then a C to t mount adapter. No optics required.

Both of these pure mechanical adapter solutions allow no focusing to infinity.
With the 16 mm C-Mount lens the would get something coarse 1:1 magnification.
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Hey There,

I am in the same boat, just got my hands on an old Taylor Hobson 1.9 and wanted to try thte same thing. Did you ever get it to work? or is it a total dead end?

I'm looking to shoot video mostly and wanted to experiment.

Thanks

Abe